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Market Fried Chicken Degradation

Last year it went south and was consistantly over cooked and dried out. Once I talked to the counter lady and she said thet Orange County Health had raised the final required cooking temperature (165*??) and it has subsequently gone down hill from there.

Albertson's used to put fried chicken on sale for $2.99 for 8 piece quite often. Then the sale price raised to $3.99. My local store made fantastic fried chicken. They cooked it in 50 piece batches, and when on sale there was a line and each batch was all sold before finished frying. Another Albertson's store just 5 minutes away (now closed) had 2 fryers, but the chicken was always horrible. When the sale price raised above $5, it exceeded my threshold of value, so I no longer partake. This is in LA county, so I don't know if rules have changed the final product. God, I miss that heavenly smell of freshly fried chicken on the drive home(bags wide open to preserve crispness). I know this does not address your question, but thanks for listening to me vent for my lost love.